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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1901
Page
3
The item lists the publication’s officers Thomas I Stanley president Arlen Eastman secretary and Saurice Parham treasurer along with contact numbers and editorial and printing rooms. It shows the newspaper number and a daily 3 45 p m publication time with subscription rates including mail and weekly options.
Governor Yates presses Jacksonville principal John W. Heninger as choice for the new Western Normal School at Macomb amid board opposition. Bayliss may accept if offered. board meets in Springfield to decide amid party tensions and possible replacements. The school could open fall 1903 as Bayliss’s term ends January that year.
The New York Herald reports drought severely reducing corn yields in Ohio Indiana Illinois Missouri Kansas Nebraska Iowa and others. Government figures show country wide production around 1.1 billion bushels far below last year and export prospects dim.
General Palma cautions that Cuba’s first chief executive will confront a split legislature likely requiring cross party support. He says a president needing majorities in both houses may deter honest patriots from seeking the office, though Palma himself may undertake the challenge.
A Lacrosse Wisconsin man was robbed at 7 p.m. and the two assailants were captured by 7:30 p.m. They were bound over to the circuit court with $1,000 bail at 8 a.m. the next day and tried at 9 o'clock. By 10 a.m. they were en route to a three year penitentiary sentence. The piece notes swift justice and comments on Judge Lynch. It also cites 1894 cigar production in the United States, contrasting with 1893 figures and referencing the anti tobacco crusade.
Constantinople reports the sultan will pay 700000 francs for interference with the Quays company rights and 600000 francs to a Frenchman over Albanian lands. The Quays clause on transfer to Turkey is dropped for appearances. Paris notes Abdul Hamid delays threaten Turkish French relations but no rupture.
A west bound Santa Fe extra freight derailed after a broken axle at Cedar Point between Emporia and Newton. Eight cars left the rails and blocked the track. Brakeman L. E. Ziegler of Emporia was killed, trapped under wreckage.
Memphis Tenn Aug 27 Tiptonville the Lake county seat has been nearly wiped out by fire for a second time this year. Almost the entire town was destroyed by a March 19 blaze and all damaged houses were new frame buildings in the burned district.
Flumes carry logs from mountains to mills fed by mountain torrents. Lumbermen after a week in camp endure a rough transfer by wooden skiff along three to four miles of waterway. Travel can reach about a mile each minute using a guff as a brake. A first timer may end seasick and jolted, half standing on end.
The article notes rising anti German sentiment after a proposed German tariff and reports Russia may curb German immigration into Russian Poland amid 600 000 foreigners in Warsaw with 82 percent Germans.
J H Cave was exonerated by the coroner's jury at Correctionsille in the death of Joseph Sullivan an employee of Pan Zee Bill's Wild West show.
In Dallas Texas the farmer Owen Bradley from Holland fired at his wife during a nighttime incident, the darkness causing him to mistake her for a burglar and he killed her.
Chicago August 27 Colored Knights of Pythias march to the grounds by Webster school at Thirty third street and Wentworth avenue for the order biennial convention. It is the first encampment of the uniformed rank to be held during a national convention.
The Machias reached Colon as the navy department orders precautionary measures due to revolutionary outbreaks near the port and potential risk to American interests. The arrival signals heightened vigilance in the area.
Chicago and New York markets present mixed activity with wheat and oats slipping then steady, corn easing before a late rally, and butter and eggs holding in narrow ranges. Potatoes unsettled, potatoes and live poultry varied, while flour and rye show modest shifts amid broad market quiet.
Cattle prices rise on strong demand with Western Steers firm and fed Texas Steers seen at higher ranges. South Omaha shows robust beef hogs market with early quotes and sample ranges for native beef, cows, feeders, and bulls amid steady to firm movement.
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